Why hasn't God given me any signs of his existence...?

Question

I can only reach the conclusion,that he doesn't exist!

Answer 1

Let's see...
No one sees God anymore, or hears God anymore, etc etc. That was all in the Bible, which is a retrospective text - about things in the past, never the present nor the future (being something to set your calendar by, and then see it happen).

Has anyone seen a photograph of God? Sound recording?
Any writings directly by God (not indirectly).
People talk about God all the time - but no one has actually seen him?

Therefore he doesn't exist.
And is dead as a Dodo...

Answer 2

well according to the bible God hasn't done that for many people, it's kind of a faith thing, I'm not a heavy christian, I don't attend church because I find to many hypocrites there but I still believe in the bible, not to the point where I'm an extremist, I hate when anybody turns anything extremist. But when I look to God I see the things he created because you look around the planet and all the wonders of the world. I don't believe a few atoms messing around and happening into a big bang that sprayed out a whole universe of gorgeous things could be possible. If you just look at the stars, the moon, the mountains anywhere, it's so perfect and everything is so balanced, how could anything else have created this much by random chance?
I ask myself many questions about God all the time, but if we didn't have anything left to ask about him then how would anyone hold interest in him? We could never know everything about God. Though I admit he's pretty mysterious.

Answer 3

Because you can't see God with your eyes you conclude he does not exist.Where is the logic in this? Scientists tell us there are black holes in space,You cant see one but you accept their reality based on another persons observations.What proof do you have that they really exist ?You change your mind to suit the situation. God has given us many signs of his existence ,the Apparitions of Jesus and Mary.I bet you dont believe in Apparitions of the Virgin Mary. because she has never appeared to you. Colin Ward is an Anglican,and prior to 1993 gave little or no thought to Mary and her divine role and he had no awareness of her apparitions from the Word of Spirit.When he first heard about Medjugorje, he simply could not believe it,yet he read the book he was given and then purchased more in an endeavour to see if there were any common spiritual links and indeed if the apparitions were authentic.His survey did not embrace all known apparitions ,but sufficient to prove to him that there were just too many well recorded and documented apparitions to dismiss as fantasy or misguided spiritual fervour,and the works that flowed from them were good.This is from a non-Catholic.
You probably regard Mary as a sinner and has to obey God.You probably reject Mary's assumption into Heaven.You probably refuse to belive Mary has divine power,and helps God with conversion.You probably don't believe that Mary is the Immaculate Conception.You probably refuse to believe that Mary is the Mother of God, because none of this in in your bible.These events happened well after the Bible was written.If you won't at least accept the possibility no matter how remote it is to you of these apparitions you will remain ignorant and you will offend God.

Answer 4

He does, they're all around you. I don't say this to be harsh, its just that the evidence for God is so close, that we take it for granted. Now I know you probably ment more, but let me explain two things.

First, whatever God does, if he does it frequently it will join this category. For example, we get over the colds and flus all the time due to an amazingly complex immune system, we don't think too much on the fact that we can get antibiotics to cure a minor infection even though there is evidence that Alexander Flemming had heavenly help in developing penicillin, thus if God gave us a cure for cancer tomarrow we would be amazed for only a short time as well. Even spontaneous remissions of horrific diseases can be dismissed away by those looking to find alternate explanations than God.

Second, God prefer's faith first. This was seen in John 20:29 when he appeared to "doubting Thomas" and said, "Jesus said to him, '“Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.'” Thus God may not be too quick to reveal Himself through miracle for your sake. Also, be careful how you ask because who are we to tell God what to do?

Despite the above I would encourage you to continue praying and asking him to reveal Himself to you. It might be in less dramatic ways, but I believe that if you ask with honest heart He will eventually answer. Afterall Jesus did show Himself to Thomas in order for him to believe, even though He rebuked Thomas for needing it.

Answer 5

Look at the complexity of the universe. Look at the natural laws that exist. Take gravity, it is a law we can not break. The rules of nature and its complexity leads one to believe that some superior entity must "run" the place. Check your breathing, how does that happen, your heart what keeps it pumping? Even Einstein, an avid atheist when asked if he believed in God, said that there must be an entity that must contro the complexity of the universe. Ask, and you will receive and anwer. It's just that easy, bro., He'll open your eyes to the wonder of His creation.

Answer 6

Read Romans 1 starting at verse 18- it basically talks about how God has revealed Himself to us in creation and other ways-it is us who chose to believe He exists or not. God says that "when you seek Me with all of your heart, you will find Me"
He is not hiding Himself from anyone- He desires that all come to the knowledge of the truth- that His Son came into the world to save sinners.- Which by the way is ALL of us. If you reach out in faith believing, then God can reveal more and more to you. I give you a challenge- I am sure that you have read the book of John before- this time read it again- but before you do, ask God to reveal His Son to you through its pages. He will. HE did to me, and now my faith has given me sight.

Answer 7

let's say that our starting point is that we forget what we know, or think we know, and that we suspend judgment about practically everything, returning to what we were when we were babies when we had not yet learned the names or the language. And in this state, although we have extremely sensitive bodies and very alive senses, we have no means of making an intellectual or verbal commentary on what is going on.

You are just plain ignorant, but still very much alive, and in this state you just feel what is without calling it anything at all. You know nothing at all about anything called an external world in relation to an internal world. You don't know who you are, you haven't even the idea of the word you or I-- it is before all that. Nobody has taught you self control, so you don't know the difference between the noise of a car outside and a wandering thought that enters your mind- they are both something that happens. . Your breath happens. Light, all around you, happens. Your response to it by blinking happens.

So, on one hand you are simply unable to do anything, and on the other there is nothing you are supposed to do. Nobody has told you anything to do. You are completely unable to do anything but be aware of the buzz. The visual buzz, the audible buzz, the tangible buzz, the smellable buzz-- all around the buzz is going on. Watch it. Don't ask who is watching it; you have no information about that yet. You don't know that it requires a watcher for something to be watched. That is somebody's idea; but you don't know that.

Lao-tzu says, "The scholar learns something every day, the man of tao unlearns something every day, until he gets back to non-doing."

Answer 8

try to open your heart and search for clues inside there... everything around you is the proof that God exist

Answer 9

I reached that conclusion at the age of seven.... So I presume all the believers are 6 years old at most....

Answer 10

First of all, please understand that as we are all thinking humans, there are moments when even the most pious persons are tormented by doubts and questions about their convictions. But that is no reason to conclude that their tested and tried beliefs are false.



Nature of Allah's Existence



Consider the existence of an All-Powerful Creator-Sustainer. One important point about Allah Almighty is that we cannot prove His existence in the same way we can prove the existence of a physical being. This is because Allah is not a physical being that is subject to our five senses.



We can see, hear, smell, touch or even taste a physical being. This is not possible in the case of Allah, as He is a Transcendental Being, a Being existing on a level beyond our sensual perception.



There are people who argue that the only form of knowledge available to humans is experiential (empirical) knowledge gained primarily by the use of outer senses.



This means that the actual knowledge of Reality (the Reality behind appearances) is not accessible to us; and so any attempt to seek such knowledge is doomed to failure.



This view leads to the idea that the only object of human concern is the knowledge of here and now.


The foregoing positivist view rules out the possibility of all forms of transcendental existence as well as any spiritual endeavors on the part of humans motivated by belief in a world beyond this world.



But as thinking beings we ought to be conscious of the limitations of our own capabilities and the defects of our senses. The claim that something does not exist simply because we have not seen it or heard it is untenable.



An Irrelevant Question



When we ponder the shortcomings of our sensual perception and the limits of our reasoning powers, it is not necessary that we understand everything and can speak meaningfully about everything simply on the basis of our perception. So to speak of "proof" with regard to a Transcendental Being becomes irrelevant.



What we can do is to point out facts that bolster in us a constant and inescapable awareness of the presence of God; that is, if we are not prepared to take into consideration revealed knowledge.



It is clear that logically we cannot rule out the possibility of more things existing that can be perceived by our senses or can be arrived at by our reasoning. And it is obvious that there are two dimensions to human existence: one of matter, and the other of spirit.



Matter or Spirit?



Reduced merely to the level of material existence, humans become machines, or mere animals at best. But think of a machine that rebels against being a machine; or of an animal that struggles to rise above mere animal existence. That is what humans are.



What is it that makes them rebellious, angry, disappointed, frightened or hopeful? What are the dimensions that give them their imaginations, their artistic genius, their creative urges? Why do they have nightmares and sweet dreams?



It is not matter that does this. Rather, it is their spirits that make them so different from animals. So to base our knowledge of the world and our philosophy of life simply on the material side of our existence to the complete exclusion of the spiritual dimension, is undoubtedly faulty.



The strength of Islam as a philosophy and as a way of life is that it does not separate material life from spiritual life, and that it seeks a balance between the two dimensions of human existence.



Reflect on the Universe



We should understand that the human spirit is a reality incommensurable with material realities. If we ponder over the phenomena of the world around us and over the complexities of our own existence, we are bound to conclude that there is a powerful presence from which all that exists derives its form, direction and movement.



This is the reality behind all appearances. The Qur'an says:



*{Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the night and the day; in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which God sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds, and the clouds which they trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth; here indeed are signs for a people that are wise.}* (Al-Baqarah 2: 164)



That is to say, the external signs we see in the universe should necessarily lead a wise person to the Ultimate Reality behind it all. And that is how we arrive at the realization that Allah Almighty is the Moving Spirit behind all life and all existence.



Being Convinced



One way of being convinced of Divine existence is to read the book of Allah. Approach the noble Qur'an with a desire to know the truth and to be guided by it. Seek refuge with Allah Almighty from devilish impulses and start reading the Qur'an; and your doubts will be cleared.



While reading the Qur'an, imagine that Allah is talking to you personally. Feel His presence with you. Get closer to Allah by performing extra Prayers, giving out to the poor and the needy, and doing a lot of supplication to Him.



Look at yourself and see how miraculously you are created. Look around you and see how things are beautifully arranged. All this leads to one conclusion: that there is one Creator who manages all affairs on the heaven and the earth at one time.



May Allah the All-Merciful guide us and help us all along the Straight Path.



I hope this answers your question